Quotes with true-story

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1326.

  • Oscar Wilde They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carlton Cuse This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Boris Johnson This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
    Source: Man and Superman (1903) Epistle dedicatory
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Karel II This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
    Karel II
     
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ben E. King Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Seneca Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ellen Glasgow Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Marcel Proust Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bodhidharma To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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